A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born

This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and un-organised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world.
The book compares the development of each of the…

The Affective Histories of Blood, Stone and Land

Historicising Heritage and Emotions considers the long affective history of heritage, examining how emotions work to shape heritage both in the past and today. Comprising of fourteen case studies, the innovation of this volume lies in its historical methodology, which recognises heritage and…

British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

Today’s museums and libraries are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks, and other culturally significant objects. Collecting the Past brings together the latest research on…

This book analyses the stance of international communism towards nationality, anti-colonialism, and racial equality as defined by the Communist International (Comintern) during the interwar period. Central to the volume is a comparative analysis of the communist parties of three British dominions;…

Adapting to Social and Economic Change

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An independent art commissioning agency based in London, it has operated since 1985 and is responsible for producing some of the most striking ephemeral and…

Essays on Slavery, Migration and Imagination, 2nd Edition

The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration and Imagination brings together ten original essays that explore the many connections between the Old and New Worlds in the early modern period. Divided into five sets of paired essays, it examines the role of specific port cities in Atlantic history…

The Triumph of Private Property

Based on a mixture of primary historical research and secondary sources, this book explores the reasons for the failure of the state in England during the 20th century to regulate, tax, and control the market in land for the common or public good. It is maintained that this created the…

Ritual, Practice and Material Culture

With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals, artefacts and material culture that is consciously deployed in order to define and shape the institution both historically and going forward into an uncertain future. Drawing upon…

Histories from the 17th to the 21st Centuries; Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes

Britain has largely been in denial of its migrant past - it is often suggested that the arrivals after 1945 represent a new phenomenon and not the continuation of a much longer and deeper trend. There is also an assumption that Britain is a tolerant country towards minorities that distinguishes…

Culture, Space and Race

Much of the intellectual effort in the surging field of settler colonial studies since the late 1990s has been to theorize the structural distinction between colonialism and settler colonialism. While the field has always been interdisciplinary, its emphasis on settler colonialism as a political…